South American squirrel monkey

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Saimiri sciureus (South American Squirrel Monkey) is a species of primates in the family New World monkeys. They are found in The Neotropics. They are omnivores. Individuals are known to live for 30.2 years and can grow to 748 mm.

URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q217151
Definition: one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
Definition: organism consuming a variety of foods, usually including both plants and animals

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EOL has data for 64 attributes, including:

age at maturity
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtMaturity
- Definition: Age at the first successful reproduction.
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36 months
diet breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DietBreadth
- Definition: Number of dietary categories eaten by an organism.
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3
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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geographic range (size of area)
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/GeographicRangeArea
- Definition: The total extent of the geographic range of an organism.
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3166418.25
habitat breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HabitatBreadth
- Definition: Number of habitat layers used by an organism
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1
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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mountain range
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000080
- Definition: A series of connected and aligned mountains or mountain ridges.
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head-body length
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HeadBodyLength
- Definition: Head-body length is the total length from tip of nose to anus, base of tail or vent (i.e. tail length is excluded).
- Comment: Example: snout vent length in amphibians
- Attribution: YouTheria Manual: Head-body length http://www.utheria.org/head-bodylength.aspx
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295 mm
hind tarsus length
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HindTarsusLength
- Definition: The hind foot length, from heel to toe.
- Attribution: Darrin Lunde
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78 mm
home range
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HomeRange
- Definition: Size of the area within which everyday activities of individuals or groups (of any type) are typically restricted.
- Attribution: Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Justin O'Dell, C. David L. Orme, Kamran Safi, Wes Sechrest, Elizabeth H. Boakes, Chris Carbone, Christina Connolly, Michael J. Cutts, Janine K. Foster, Richard Grenyer, Michael Habib, Christopher A. Plaster, Samantha A. Price, Elizabeth A. Rigby, Janna Rist, Amber Teacher, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis. 2009. PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/
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0.65
inter-birth interval
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/InterBirthInterval
- Definition: The length of time between successive births of a female.
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383.25
litters per year
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/LittersPerYear
- Definition: Number of litters per female per year
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1.07
male female body mass ratio
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/MaleFemaleBodyMassRatio
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1.1676653283

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of South American squirrel monkey. View this species on GBIF

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Saimiri sciureus (Linnaeus 1758)